Lazar Berman Team Israel’s “Cinderella” run through the World Baseball Classic was fun, wasn’t it? Despite bowing out of the second round of the tournament on Wednesday after falling to Japan 8-3, the players certainly enjoyed themselves as much as their fans. They sported T-shirts that read “Jew Crew.” Utility man Cody Decker, one of […]
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USANew York (dpa) – A room full of teddy bears is featured in an art exhibit that opened Friday at New York City’s Jewish Museum. Hundreds of teddy bears and other stuffed animals hang suspended from the ceiling and on the walls or sit on pedestals or piled on the floor. The exhibit “Chalemagne Palestine’s
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Jewish History, USAU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson began his two-day trip to South Korea on Friday. He and his Korean counterparts are expected to focus on discussing ways to empower the bilateral tie and thwart the growing threats from North Korea. Tillerson arrived at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek at about 10:10 a.m. He came from
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International, USAWASHINGTON — White House officials scrambled to explain themselves Friday after an unusual press briefing a day earlier prompted a diplomatic flap with Britain, one of the United States’ closest allies. It began Thursday when press secretary Sean Spicer read a series of news stories from the White House briefing room in an attempt to
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International, USATwo federal judges, in Hawaii and Maryland, recently froze parts of President Donald Trump’s order to block travel and immigration from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. All heavily Muslim nations. Groups pushing to stop the order say it was a Muslim ban and followed what Trump said he’d do during
More people are listening to National Public Radio than ever before, NPR announced Wednesday. In fall 2016, the total weekly listeners reached 37.5 million — 4 million more than fall 2015, and the most in its nearly 50-year history. That’s good news for public radio lovers, and it comes at a time when they need
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USAA Secret Service agent’s laptop containing sensitive information was stolen from an unoccupied vehicle outside the agent’s home in Brooklyn Thursday morning, according to multiple reports. Sources told a local CBS News affiliate that the laptop contained floor plans and evacuation protocol for New York City’s Trump Tower, where first lady Melania Trump and 10-year-old
An alleged Twitter troll behind a virtual attack that caused Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald to suffer a seizure was arrested on Friday. The suspect faces federal charges and could face additional counts in Dallas, where Eichenwald lives, according to the writer. FBI officials arrested the man at his home in in Salisbury, Maryland, before
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFormer U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration last week, was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s health secretary, according to a person familiar with the office. Tom Price, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, came under scrutiny during his confirmation
COP applauds Guterres on rejection of ESCWA’s anti-Israel resolution NEW YORK (Pess Release) –Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued the following statement: “We applaud Secretary General Guterres for his principled, forceful and swift rejection of the scurrilous report commissioned by the United
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International, Middle East, USAPosters plastered across the University of Illinois at Chicago campus accusing American Jews of benefiting from “Jewish privilege” have rattled the local Jewish community amid a wave bomb threats and vandalism targeting Jewish institutions nationwide. The posters reference the idea of “white privilege”, a notion pushed by the American progressive-left that disparities in social and
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USAA group of prominent Orthodox rabbis and thinkers have launched a new American rabbinic organization to counter the media”s tendency to cite left-wing partisans in the American Jewish community as representative of mainstream Jewish thought. The new organization is called the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV). “The media tends to solicit statements on Jewish concerns
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Middle East, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –Once again, we have seen political opponents of the Trump Administration concocting a false charge of anti-Semitism against a senior White House official, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump. Dr. Gorka is a member of the Strategic Initiatives Group created by Steve Bannon, another senior official subjected
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump sent a letter Thursday to the oldest-living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack to wish him on his birthday. Ray Chavez, a Poway, California, man turned 105 on March 11. Trump’s letter was tweeted by his Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The president wrote “keep going!” beside his signature at the end of
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